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One of the best attended sessions at the November 2002 annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) focused on stories and storytelling in planning. Below two of the participants in this session give a quick answer to the question: why have planners become interested in stories?

   
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Leonie Sandercock
 

Books:

Throgmorton, James A. (1996) Planning as Persuasive Storytelling: The Rhetorical Construction of Chicago's Electric Future. xiv, 314 p., 28 halftones, 15 line drawings, 5 tables. 1996 Series: (NPI) New Practices of Inquiry

Leonie Sandercock (ed) (1998) Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History. California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 2. Berkeley: University of California Press.


To view a narrative of the Regional Workbench Consortium, focused on a community-based development project, click here: The Colonia Diez de Mayo Story.
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Some rough notes on WRITING GOOD CREATIVE NON-FICTION
by Richard Pezzoli